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Just an FYI, the U.S. has a variety of one dollar coins, including 'silver' dollars, Susan b. Anthony, sacageweah and a lineal 'presidential' dollar coin series...

2 dollar bills still exist you have to ask for them at the bank.

I’ve spent 8 $2 bills in my life and I was thrilled each and every time. Had a girl tell me she needed real money to which I responded “this is real money”.

The US still mints 50 cent coins. They just aren't very popular. My mom used to get one for me whenever she went to the bank when I was a kid.

Please know that I've read your comments on the 50 cent and $1 coins and that I absolutely intend to procure them. This is amazing!

American paper money is actually fine in the washing machine too. It's more cloth than actual paper.

4:54 - All U.S. notes will fit into the same slot of a vending machine.

We have "silver dollars", Susan B Anthony Dollars and Sacagawea dollars as well as 50 cent pieces.

Our US "bills" are actually notes too. "Federal Reserve Note" If you look at the fine print on the front it also say's " This note is legal tender for all debts public and private "

British money is way more accommodating to the blind than American money. At least a blind Brit would know if they were being ripped off by a cashier!

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I can confirm a £10 note goes through wash, spin and dry cyles with no damage

The US does have a 50 cent piece, commonly known as a half-dollar. It has Kennedy on it.

I love that the “vegetarian” coin has plants representing each of the countries in the UK all united within one crown. The rose for England, thistle for Scotland, leek for Wales, and clover for Northern Ireland. Cool! Great video.

I was fortunate to be in the UK in 1988 and snagged a couple of pound notes, an English and a Scottish one. I found it interesting that in Scotland they were different, issued by the Bank of Scotland, slightly different look.

You should talk about all the security measurements in place on UK Bank notes making them difficult to counterfeit, they are mind blowing!

UK currency is more friendly to the visually impaired.

If dollars are called greenbacks, does that mean pounds are called queenbacks?

I love your wife’s sort of vintage aesthetic going on in this video.

"The British weren't happy" - there seems to be a trend here

You left out the half-dollar coin and the $1 coin

Different size notes are good for the blind and partially sighted. The coins with edges help too.

I learned recently (from a gentleman who runs a coin and stamp collector's shop) that a lot of people think $2 bills rare, so they hold on to them when they get them. That's you don't see them often in daily life. Legend has it that the $2 was developed for people placing bets at horse race tracks. The smallest bet allowed was (and maybe still is) $2, and the bill made life easier for both the bettor and the cashier.

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the reason British bank notes vary in size is so the blind can differentiate them as the note value goes up so does its size

American bills are green but each have a slightly different secondary hue.

According to Wikipedia: The word dime comes from the Old French "disme" (Modern French "dîme"), meaning "tithe" or "tenth part", from the Latin decima. The dime is currently the only United States coin in general circulation that is not denominated in terms of dollars or cents.

Just discovered your channel and am loving it - as a Canadian it sometimes feels like we are a mix of the US and Britain (although at the same time Proudly Canadian And Don't You Forget It) - didn't realize until now (although since I go to the UK frequently I'm not sure how I missed it) how similar Canadian and British money is...

American money is also washable and tear resistant (albeit not as much so as the polymer notes), as it's made of a cotton blend rather than paper as is often misrepresented.

You missed two coins the US has. The 50 cent piece / Half Dollar coin that has President JFK on it. There is also a dollar coin with Sacagawea on it. Both are in circulation, but not used much.

Don't put those notes or bills in the washing machine!! Money laundering is *illegal* !! >;-)

$2 bills are still around. Scrap metal yards commonly pay you in $2 bills. My father used to get them from the bank because he wanted to save money in cash, but if he got regular bills, he'd be more tempted to spend it. Now I have over $2100 of them in the safe.

The $2 Jefferson bill is still made just not widely distributed. I picked up several Jefferson $2 in Monticello!

Hamilton on the ten dollar bill was never a president. He was the first secretary of the treasure.

You can still get $2 bills from the bank. My dad carries a “lucky” $2 in his wallet and when it gets too old and ragged he gets another one from the bank. But the bills aren’t very common.

It broke my heart when the UK went decimal. I loved those old notes and coins.

The $2 bill features Thomas Jefferson, and was most often handed out in communities holding race meets: $2 was the lowest amount you could wager on a horserace.

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The U.S. Mint still prints $2.00 bills and sometimes a bank will have some. If you need a quantity of them, you can go to a bank and ask them to order some. I was paid a bonus entirely with $2.00 bills. I had to put them in a briefcase to get them home.

I was a child when I lived on the UK (1957-1960 I was 3 -6) and remember the money of the time was a farthing (1/4 pence) the heypenny (half pence) the pence then the Shilling which was 12 pence and 20 shillings rob the pound. I don't know when it changed, but I miss the old. Note: a quid is slang for the pound just as a "buck" is slang for the dollar.

Love the video. We also have a 50 cent coin and a dollar coin. Although not used as much but still in circulation.

I am glad the American paper money is one size. It will fit perfectly in the wallet.

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I grew up near the town where the "paper" for American money is made. It is not actually paper but it is in fact a cotton-linen cloth. Traditionally, the cotton was sourced from the scraps left over from the production of blue jeans. Unfortunately, due to skinny leg trends and the addition of spandex to denim, they can no longer use those scraps - otherwise the dollar would literally stretch.

Did they mention the colours/sizes are to help visually impaired people? Also, the value is in braille

I love coins, I find them very interesting and am building up a collection. Some facts about U.S. coins, most coins (dimes, quarters, half-dollar, and dollar) were made of silver (90% silver, 10% copper) up to 1964. In 1965 they changed to a copper-nickel mix (with some exceptions being 40% silver, depending on coin and year). Here are the coins that the U.S. has had in the past: Half-Cent (minted 1793-1857) Cent (still in circulation) 2-Cent (minted 1864-1872) 3-Cent Silver (made of silver, minted 1851-1873) 3-Cent Nickel (made of nickel, minted 1865-1889) 5-Cent Nickel (still in circulation) Half Dime (5-cents, made of silver, minted 1792-1873) Dime (10-cents, still in circulation) 20-Cent (made of silver, minted 1875-1878) Quarter-Dollar (25-cents, still in circulation) Half-Dollar (50-cents, still in circulation) Dollar (still in circulation) There have been many dollar coins, large coins and coins similar in size to a quarter. Morgan Silver Dollar (large coin, minted 1878-1904, and 1921) Peace Silver Dollar (large coin, minted 1922-1928, and 1934-1935) Eisenhower Silver Dollar (large coin, minted 1971-1978) Susan B. Anthony Dollar (quarter size, minted 1979-1981, and 1999) Sacagawea Dollar (quarter size, minted 2000-2001, and 2009-2011) Presidential Dollar (quarter size, minted 2007-2011) There is a lot of interesting history to our currency. Sorry for unloading all this information, but it's something I'm passionate about. I'll have to look into the history of British currency as well. The fact that different coins make up the Royal Shield is really neat. It would be fun to get those coins just to make the puzzle.

When I was in England (84-85), they still had half-pennies. One thing I thought was really cool was that you could bring a big bag of 2-penny coins, pennies, and half-pennies to the bank and they could weigh them to discover the total value.

One other thing that happend when we visited the UK was that the notes that our local bank in Canada gave us where 'expired'. The UK only keeps a particular printing of a note for a few years and then replaces them with a new printing, and recalls the old ones.

I was to receive your brother's book "everything you know about England is wrong" yesterday, instead I received it two hours ago regular mail. Looking forward to reading it Laurence. Thank your brother from me.

GBP notes vary in size and color to make using cash easier for visually impaired people.

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Fun fact about American currency: Ben Franklin is the only person on American money that wasn’t a President or General. Alexander Hamilton wasn’t a President but he was a Major General. American money also has an interesting feature: for bills $5 or above, the shirt the person is wearing has raised printing, so its a different texture.

Churchill was granted honorary US citizenship by JFK and has a US destroyer named for him. A Royal naval officer is permanently assigned to the ship and the British white ensign is flown from the yardarm.

I find counting GBP so much easier because of the colours and sizes. I also hated having to workout tax in my head when I was in the US. VAT is so much simpler, the tax is in the price

Having British notes of different sizes for different denominations is a good idea for the blind. Thank you

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You can still get 2 dollar bills. My uncle still got them until the day the died which was last year. You can still use them for tender. We also have dollar coins in the US also.

The U.S. also has 50-cent pieces with John F. Kennedy on them. They're extremely hard to find because it seems like everyone saves them. Everyone I know has a little jar filled with them. Last year I saw someone use one to buy something - when I asked if I could trade 2 quarters for it, the cashier shook her head & said she saves them whenever she gets them LOL

This is a very interesting channel. Educational and entertaining.

Hamilton was not a president, but first secretary of the treasury. Was on Washington's during the Revolution. Killed by Aaron Burr in a duel.

*"The British weren't happy."*

The British Note colors looks like the old American Food Stamps bill colors back in the day.

I like the UK notes...more style and more color and small enough to fit into a wallet.

Great video! I've been fascinated by currency ever since I was a kid growing up in Spain (US Navy brat here). I used to love all of the different European notes... marks, francs, pounds, pesetas, guilders, etc. The introduction of the euro was disappointing to me in that every country's currency reflected much of that country's culture, history and values. Dutch money had flowers, French money had artists, Spanish money, conquistadors and ships. British money is fascinating to me. I was there recently and was excited to see the first polymer £20 notes. I learned that three Scottish banks and four Northern Irish banks also print banknotes (none of which are legal tender, but all legal currency). It was fun handing Scottish notes to cashiers in England after I returned from Edinburgh. Many of them had never seen a Scottish note, but gladly accepted them. I also learned that in the UK, most places will not accept older coins or notes. My mother found a few old coins from a visit to the UK in the 1980s and nobody would accept them until we found a little petrol station in the Scottish Borders that took them. Apparently, the Bank of England is keen on removing old coinage and notes from circulation. Their website states that they will exchange obsolete currency at face value, even while such currency may fetch higher prices from collectors. In the US, that's pretty much unheard of. I've never seen a size change here in any of the standard coins and it's not rare to get coins from as early as the 1930s as change. Old bills spend the same as current ones, too. Except for the one instance where I had a $20 bill from a 1989 series (the old black and green style) which was refused because the cashier was a youth and she thought it was counterfeit as she had never seen one before. Thanks for this video! Very interesting subject.

I have a $2 sitting in my wallet. I also have silver dollars, and 50 cent pieces.

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Green American bills, hence the slang "Greenbacks".

Now days bills only go up to $100, but in the old days they were much bigger. My dad had a friend with a framed set of notes from $10,000 down. Very impressive.

Canadian notes/bills are like a hybrid of America and your notes.

The £50 note is rare. I've never laid my hands on one either so I cant fault you for not having one. Seems the banks hoard those.

The thing I found most interesting about the British currency was that when the reigning monarch dies, all the currency has to be replaced with currency with the image of the new monarch.

I love the "vegetarian" 1 pound coins

The $2.00 bill is only printed about every 10 years. But, they are in circulation, and can be asked for at a bank. They are not very popular, the same as $1.00 coins.

missed the kennedy half-dollar coin. they're still in circulation like the $2 bill

When I worked at a gas station I absolutely loved it When people brought in foreign currency I'd accept it as normal currency And then buy it from my Register whenever things quiet down at the shop.

I noticed your saying that Alexander Hamilton was “not a founder”. He certainly was. He was the first Secretary of the Treasury and the primary author of the Federalist Papers, among other things.

The 50 cent prior to 1965 is 90% silver if you ever find one. 1965 to 1970 is 40% silver.

They still had paper last time I was there. On the fridge door I have a Clydesdale £20 (Robert the Bruce/New Lanark), Clydesdale £10 (Rabbie Burns/Edinburg), and two RBS £5 (Lord Lay/Culzean). And you weren't quite right a about $2 bill. The ones from 1976 were printed for the Bicentennial, but they were also printed much more recently. I have two on the fridge door, one is dated 2013.

In the US we actually do have dollar coins and 50 cent pieces.

Wait what? No equivalent to the 50p? We have half-dollar coins... multiple kinds of dollar coins too for equivalency on that as well.

The Queen's head is on English notes not on any Scottish notes.

Here in Canada, we have a loonie and toonie for $1, $2

This was not only informative, but funny. I'm a new subscriber and I appreciate your info. Hoping to visit the UK in a few years, if we ever get back to normal. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Something about American money: •US currency is 6" long. All "bills" or notes are the same size, and have been for generations. •To see the back of a US coin, you always flip the top edge down, as opposed to other countries'. They just turn right or left. •For many generations the US has only had coins of non-ferrous metals. Not affected by a magnet. The sole exception was the 1943 US penny. It was made of steel because the copper was needed for the war. Steel pennies left their mark on the bottom of fountains. •Another coin changed by WWII was the nickel, our 5 cent piece. The nickel metal was needed for the war, so during the war years the nickel was made from a silver alloy. This was designated by enlarging the mint mark and putting it on the reverse, over the dome of the Jefferson Memorial. •In recent years the US Mint has made numerous commemorative coins. To find and learn of one can be an introduction to one series or several: as in the penny, the nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, & dollar. •All American coins state their value, the 25 cent piece by saying it is a quarter dollar. The others by stating their value in cents. But the dime says on it that it is a dime. It doesn't say 10 cents. •Just an alert here, Canadian coins have HM the Queen on them. If one is a coin collector, I suggest stocking up now on coins and anything else with her likeness on it. I wish her well, but she is in her 90s. Right? And one day, and very sadly, this will change. Stamps, coins, bank notes and a number of other things will be changed. There is still time to create or improve collections. •I was glad to see Sir Winston on a note. How many people are left who remember ALL he did for the UK and indeed the Commonwealth? Far more than is appreciated now, I'd say. Though KZfaq is helping to keep him alive somewhat. A rare credit for KZfaq. •we would like to hear a history of the English penny. And terminology about the penny. My late British wife said several things about the penny, such as someone who suddenly understands something being explained to them-- that the penny dropped. And some others.

Technically, American paper currency is also a note. Look at the top -- it says Federal Reserve Note. We used to have silver certificates. (And gold ones, too, a long time ago.)

At one point in US history, there was a shortage of coins so severe that the US actually issued fractional banknotes (coins in bank note form). Those were on smaller sized paper but with similar designs to the dollar bill.

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A few facts about the U.S. cent coin: The cent is not solid copper, or even copper alloy. It's zinc with a very thin plating of copper. You can see this by scraping the side of a cent against a rough surface like a sidewalk. It will reveal a silvery metal under the plating. It's been this way since 1982. The Lincoln cent was originally minted in 1909, which was the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. For the first 50 years the coin had wheat ears on the back (the reverse). In 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, they changed the reverse to have a picture of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 2009, the 200th anniversary, they issued a set of bicentennial cent coins showing things like the log cabin where Lincoln was born and Lincoln as a young man in Indiana. In 2010 they put a shield on the reverse. The original designer of the Lincoln cent was Victor D. Brenner. He put his initials prominently on the reverse between the two wheat stalks. People objected to this, so not long after the coin was released the initials were eliminated. The 1909 coins with the initials are rare and valuable to collectors, especially those that were minted in San Francisco. Several years later the initials were put back, but under Lincoln's shoulder on the front (obverse), where they are barely noticeable. Copper was needed for military purposes during World War II, so in 1943 they made cents out of zinc-plated steel. After the war there were a lot of left over shell casings, so they used that metal to make cents.

U.S. bills go through the wash just fine, at least when they are in a jeans pocket. They look like ordinary paper but whatever fibers they care made of are pretty tough. I think they are partly silk.

My dear sainted grandmother used to go on trips to Las Vegas and play the one armed bandits (slot machines), and would come back with a collection of silver dollars. This sparked an interest of silver dollar collecting in our family. Our silver dollars were all silver, not the copper and silver sandwich construction like some of the US coins are now. The silver dollars were beautiful and some were from the 1800's .

My dad used to give us $2 bills all the time for allowance and lunch money. One time, when my sister was in high school (back in the late 90s) someone in line with her at lunch saw her $2 bill, and thought it was so cool, they offered to give her $10 for it. She didn't do it, but it would have been quite the deal if she had. Also, you can still get $2 bills at banks, you just have to ask for them specifically, just like one dollar coins.

The money is different sizes so the blind can tell the currency value, which is a problem for the US currency.

And these bills are very colorful compared how they use to be.

we discontinued the dollar coin because they were constantly being confused with quarters, they were the same size and shape of the 25cent piece , so instead of reaching in your pocket and pulling out a quarter you pull out a dollar coin, and drop it in to a drink machine and instead of paying 4 quarters for that drink you pay 4 dollars, so people stopped using them and went back to the dollar bill.

I was told that at one time the military was paid in two-dollar bills. In 1976 the design on the reverse was changed to celebrate the national bicentennial, but I haven't seen any since then----although technically they are in circulation and of course they can be used to buy things. They are so scarce that usually if someone comes across one, they will save it in a drawer somewhere as a collector item.

In general, most European money is "prettier" than US money, but we Americans are stuck in our ways and we luv us our greenbacks. Thanks for sharing another great video! Keep up the great work. ATB : )

Sterling video, Lawrence.

When I was in Britain on several occasions they refused to take there own money because it was "old". Even at the British Museum! That's not legal in the States.

What's interesting, is that there is a US 50c coin, but just like their $2 note, for some odd reason it isn't that widely used at all.